The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1AMS Press, 1974 - 541 sider |
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... soldiers was flattered with the honour 66 62 Dion , 1. lxxvi . p . 1272 [ 1 ] . Hist . August . p . 67 [ x . 8 ] . Severus celebrated the secular games with extraordinary magnificence , and he left in the public granaries a provision of ...
... soldiers was flattered with the honour 66 62 Dion , 1. lxxvi . p . 1272 [ 1 ] . Hist . August . p . 67 [ x . 8 ] . Severus celebrated the secular games with extraordinary magnificence , and he left in the public granaries a provision of ...
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... soldiers , instead of being confirmed by the severe discipline of camps , melted away in the luxury of cities . The excessive increase of their pay and donatives 2 exhausted the state to enrich the military order , whose modesty in ...
... soldiers , instead of being confirmed by the severe discipline of camps , melted away in the luxury of cities . The excessive increase of their pay and donatives 2 exhausted the state to enrich the military order , whose modesty in ...
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... soldiers , and to his pernicious counsels every scheme of reformation was im- puted . Some trifling accident blew up their discontent into a furious mutiny ; and a civil war raged , during three days , in Rome , whilst the life of that ...
... soldiers , and to his pernicious counsels every scheme of reformation was im- puted . Some trifling accident blew up their discontent into a furious mutiny ; and a civil war raged , during three days , in Rome , whilst the life of that ...
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